weekend activities

This weekend was our first "free weekend" in quite a while...however, it became very full before it was over.

On Friday Meredith and I picked up our tiny "Charlie Brown" Christmas tree. Yup...it fit in our trunk. :)

And...by Saturday it was decorated and glowing! Wee trees are so festive.
We worked on various Christmas gift projects throughout the weekend (more to come in that area in posts after Christmas)...and Erik was even able to do a home project we've been pondering for quite some time.

A coat rack for the sun room! But, not just any coat rack....we found a cool branch on one of our walks months ago. I insisted that we bring it home - it was too great to pass up and there had to be something we could do with it! So...it had been leaning against our living room wall for several months while we discussed WHAT to do with it. After dismissing the idea of a curtain rod and other various suggestions...we decided it would become a coat rack in the sun room (on the only blank wall left!). Yet, the right hooks had to be found and this caused another serious delay. Finally, this week I found spoon hooks on Etsy for the right price...and they arrived in the mail on Saturday. Hurrah!! So...Erik had the rack up in a jiffy, and it's even better than we imagined! :)